Belonging - The Story of the Jews 1492-1900. Nominiert: Cundill Prize for Historical Literature 2017, Nominiert: Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2017. Nominiert: Cundill Prize for Historical Literature, 2017.
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2018 |
| Seiten | 800 |
| Format | 13,1 x 19,4 x 5,0 cm |
| B-format paperback | |
| Gewicht | 666 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0099590069 |
| EAN | 9780099590064 |
| Bestell-Nr | 09959006EA |
A passionate history of a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.
Klappentext:
A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.
Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of a poetess in the ghetto of Venice; a boxer in Georgian England; a general in Ming China; an opera composer in nineteenth-century Germany. The story unfolds in Kerala and Mantua, the starlit hills of Galilee, the rivers of Colombia, the kitchens of Istanbul, the taverns of Ukraine and the mining camps of California. It sails in caravels, rides the stage coaches and the railways; trudges the dawn streets of London, hobbles along with the remnant of Napoleon's ruined army.
The Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the Jew s' search for a home is more startlingly resonant than ever.
'A magnificent achievement...' Jonathan Freedland, Guardian
'An extraordinary cultural journey, filled with astonishingly colourful and outrageous characters ... Schama delivers a superb and thrilling ride, both inspirational and tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Mail on Sunday
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A magnificent achievement... [a] parade of bustlingly vital characters from across the globe ... all painted in luminous colour... By offering such a throbbing cavalcade of characters, Schama is defying several key assumptions, even stereotypes, about Jewish history and Jews themselves... Above all, while much Jewish history can read like a sorrowful trudge through disaster, plague and pogrom, Schama's book teems with life rather than death Jonathan Freedland Guardian